You can thank (or blame) NYC for Moon Knight’s English accent
by Charles Pulliam-Moore from The Verge - All Posts on (#5XEGX)
Oscar Isaac as Mr. Knight, one facet of Moon Knight's personality. | Courtesy of Marvel Studios It was clear from Moon Knight's first trailer that Steven Grant's Britishness and vocal quirks are significant details about him that are likely to factor into how the show handles the character's canonical struggles with dissociative identity disorder. What was less clear, though, was how the decision to depict Moon Knight as an Englishman actually came about as a result of the larger shape of the current MCU.
Though the Moon Knight of Marvel's comics was originally born and raised in Chicago before going on to become a marine-turned-costumed superhero, in Disney Plus' upcoming Moon Knight series, Oscar Isaac stars as a slightly different version of the titular character who happens -it seems - to hail from jolly old London. When we...